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Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Today everyone knows the name of John Wilkes Booth, the notorious zealot who assassinated Abraham Lincoln. But in his lifetime, the killer was an actor who was well-known among fans of the theater, well-known but less famous and less admired than his brother Edwin. In the 1860s, Edwin Booth ranked among the greatest and most-respected stars of the stage. He lived in New York and sympathized with the Union cause, while his younger brother stomped the...
Author
Language
English
Description
A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Parks' latest riff on the way we are defined by history. Lincoln and Booth are twho brothers whose names were given to them as a joke, foretelling a lifetime of sibling rivalry and resentment. Haunted by the past, the brothers are forced to confront the shattering reality of their future.--From publisher description.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Aegeon, a merchant of Syracuse, is arrested in Ephesus. Aegeon tells Solinus, the Duke of Ephesus, his tale: he was shipwrecked many years ago while sailing with his wife, Aemilia, and two pairs of identical twins--their twin sons, both named Antipholus, and twin servants, both named Dromio. In the course of the storm, his wife, one of their sons, and one their servants, were lost. At eighteen, Aegeon had allowed the remaining Antipholus and Dromio...
6) Tully
Publisher
Hart Sharp Video
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
The story of two brothers, their father, a Nebraska rancher, and the family secrets that keep them apart.
9) The fighter
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
When boxer "Irish" Micky Ward tries to compete for a championship in the ring, he finds himself struggling to balance his relationships with his girlfriend, manager, and the brother who helped train him to fight.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
When Tom and Jon's parents go out of town, it's up to Aunt Dahlia to come watch them. She's a bit odd, but the prune cookies she is always giving them are delicious. Strange things start happening to them...could it be Aunt Dahlia?
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Set in nineteenth century Europe, the brothers travel from village to village pretending to perform exorcisms and protect the townsfolk from strange creatures, for a price, until they come to a forest that is actually cursed.
19) Tetro
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A seventeen-year-old boy travels to Argentina to become reconnected with his older brother, a writer whose work can help them understand their past and work out their feelings about their father, a famous conductor.
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